UN: Governments use counter-terrorism and violent extremism 'rhetoric' to justify invasive surveillance tech: "UN Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin highlights three particular trends that characterize the use of new technologies in counter-terrorism and preventing and countering violent extremism. She highlights that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated biometric data collection and both further exceptionalized and normalized its use... In the past five years, drone technology has followed the same well-worn path from the battlefield to the home front that has been observed in policing tactics and weaponry generally."